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http://meatspacepress.org/#download “‘Our Digital Rights to the City’ is a small collection of articles about digital technology, data and the city. It covers a range of topics relating to the political and economic power of technologies that are now almost inescapable within the urban environment. This includes discussions surrounding security, mapping, real estate, smartphone applications and […]

“Donald Trump is such a consummate liar that in coming days and years our democracy will depend more than ever on the independent press – finding the truth, reporting it, and holding Trump accountable for his lies.”

The specter that haunts genetic manipulation is the genetic ideal, a perfect model obtained through the elimination of all negative traits. ´—Jean Baudrillard, The Vital Illusion Genetics is the foster child of eugenics a quasi-science and mythology of constructing the perfect species through technological progress and the perfection of human nature. The word “eugenics” was coined […]

Forthcoming from Verso in January, the English translation of Thomas Hippler‘s Le gouvernement du ciel: The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombing. Ever since its invention, aviation has embodied the dream of perpetual peace between nations, yet the other side of this is the nightmare of […]

The Charnel-House Gustavs Klucis — also known as Gustav Klutsis, the Russian spelling of his name — was one of the pioneers of Soviet agitprop graphic design, particularly prominent for his revolutionary use of the medium of photomontage to create political posters, book designs, newspaper and magazine illustrations. He was born in the small village of Ruen in Latvia. He studied art in Riga from 1913 to 1915, and later …